Posted on 01/13/2022 12:55:37 PM PST by Ennis85
Eleven people including Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers, have been indicted on charges of seditious conspiracy, marking an escalation of the Justice Department’s investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 last year.
An indictment unsealed Thursday accused Mr. Rhodes, 56 years old, of organizing an armed plot to storm the Capitol and stop the certification of President Biden’s election victory.
The case marks the first time the Justice Department has filed charges of sedition in connection with the attack and comes days after Attorney General Merrick Garland promised that prosecutors would charge anyone responsible for the Capitol riot “at any level,” not just those who breached the building. Mr. Rhodes didn’t enter the building that day, but prosecutors said he directed his followers there, setting in motion the violence.
His lawyer, Jonathon Moseley, said he was on the phone with Mr. Rhodes Thursday afternoon when agents showed up at his client’s home in Granbury, Texas.
Prosecutors described the 10 other people indicted on seditious conspiracy and other charges as affiliated with the Oath Keepers. Counting Thursday’s indictment, more than three dozen members or affiliates of the Oath Keepers and another far-right group, the Proud Boys, have been arrested in connection with the attack on the Capitol. The Justice Department has charged more than 725 people in the attack to date.
Prosecutors say Mr. Rhodes and other members of the Oath Keepers used encrypted communications apps to coordinate a series of actions leading up to their actions on Jan. 6, including organizing into teams and amassing weapons in the Washington area.
Once protesters had breached the Capitol perimeter, prosecutors say, members of the Oath Keepers marched into the Capitol as a team in “stack formation,” a single-file militarytactic.
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Epps must be still necessary to the FIBs because when he’s not, he will know what it feels like to have Arkanside come to the desert of AZ.
A fatal ranch accident in his future.
That’s why so many criminals released..Do the job for congress to get rid of all the useless eaters....Better known as conservatives,decent people and pro-lifers......
Equal protection?
Filthy Backstabbing Idiots.
Well they might have had some bumpstocks ya know. Cant stand a chance the feds who clearly own your very health.
WERE THE OATH KEEPERS ARMED?
I don’t recall any mention of the protesters being armed?
Were they armed? If so, were shots fired or knives drawn and used to cut people?
LOL - “stack formation”!
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I would not be surprised to find out that a single person, standing by themselves, will be redefined by the FBI as a suspected terrorist obviously waiting for the rest of his/her terror cell to arrive.
Fed! Fed! Fed! Fed!
Where’s Ray Epps?
Remember Gov. Whitmore conspiracy? Deja vu.
So many policy failures for Biden and Dems. These arrests and charges are them hoping a “right wing Trumper” will do something violent.
If it doesn’t work they’ll stage an event. Biden has nothing. Media has nothing.
Bullshit. These guys are more victims of our Fascist government. The FBI and the DOJ can rot in hell!!!
Sure. Right. These guys are definitely not victims. After what they and others did to those police officers, they deserve everything they get and more.
I don’t think the stack formation is any good if you have NO GUNS!!
Good one! Leave to the Bee😃😃
So a seditious conspirator responsible for a “domestic terror attack” on the Capitol was a free man for a year and suddenly charged just as January 6 narrative is getting torched? Sounds legit.— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) January 13, 2022
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-01-13/trumps-vaccine-support-may-cost-him-victory-2024
This article says that’s part of why Trump may not be what we thought. It’s sad, if true.
Bunch of larping losers that have given the left an excuse to jam tyranny down the country’s throat. They talked a big game but accomplished nothing. They are pathetic. Good riddance. Next time the LARP crew wants to assault DC, volunteer to be poll watcher instead and do some good.
If they, those individuals, did harm to police, yes they deserve to be punished. But it is more likely that the antifa infiltrators were the ones committing the violence rather than the oath keepers.
These people are Patriots unlike a keyboard kommando such as yourself.
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